Speaker addresses LGBTQ audience as ‘things and its’.

Meteorologist Marshall McPeek at the convention for the National LGBTQ Journalists Association. (Image from Mary Emily O'Hara)

NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists issued an apology on Sunday after an emcee at its annual conference welcomed a crowd of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer news professionals as “ladies and gentlemen, things and its.”